Clpd 6 - quotes

"choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast or easy. Choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them."

€�If you live for external achievement, years pass and the deepest parts of you go unexplored and unstructured… It is easy to slip into a self-satisfied moral mediocrity. You grade yourself on a forgiving curve. You figure as long as you are not obviously hurting anybody and people seem to like you, you must be OK. But you live with an unconscious boredom, separated from the deepest meaning of life and the highest moral joys. Gradually, a humiliating gap opens between your actual self and your desired self, between you and those incandescent souls you sometimes meet.”

"as I have said, the first thins is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself...great peacemakers are all people of integrity. Of honesty, but humility."

"mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power"

"integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed"

"without a moral compass, the human mind will justify anything."

"...It is easy to slip into a self-satisfied moral mediocrity..."

"failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

"failure is an event, never a person"

"we do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience'

€�It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”